After renovation disaster strikes
So when the house of Becker's daydreams came on the market, the couple decided it would make a lot of sense to buy it. For starters, they were expecting a...
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Gutting that dream home
Giving up a lot, however, doesn't mean you can't (ultimately) get what you want. Even if that means a major renovation to meet your family's needs. The house, a spec...
Make It Mondrian
Walls of windows and smart design give a mid-century split-level a boldly modern new look
The fair chair
Some gals go for jewelry. Judith Miller goes for chairs. "I can never come home from researching a book project without one, but they're getting harder to sneak into the...
The fair chair
Some gals go for jewelry. Judith Miller goes for chairs. "I can never come home from researching a book project without one, but they're getting harder to sneak into the...
Art for all
In the house INTIMATE SETTINGS MAKE COLLECTING ALL THE MORE PERSONAL Chicago long has had apartment galleries, where dealers publicly showed art in the places where they lived. The difference...
The can-do man
"A lot of people mess up my name. It's hard to remember," Scott Heuvelhorst says with a laugh. Not to worry. His work is hard to forget, judging from the...
Her night in bright lights
Young social lives are rife with rites of passage, from that first date or school dance to taking a graduation trip with friends and heading off to college. But those...
Beat post-vacation bedroom envy
Was it a business trip or a family vacation where you found sanctuary in the comfort of your hotel guest room? Was it the linens, the mattress, the low lighting...
Ikonic Koons
But is it art? At the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art's "Jeff Koons" retrospective, very sexually explicit pieces of the artist himself were in question. Tongues wagged, yet...